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[p]New adventures await your Sims on the sunny shores and beneath the glistening water of an island paradise! From exploring the tropical isles to creating a five-star resort experience, your Sims can decide to embark on an unforgettable journey or make themselves a new home in this new utopia. Nautical Sims can even take the helm of fully customizable houseboats and set sail between islands! If your Sims would rather be in the water than on it, they can snorkel and scuba dive their way through the ocean. Who knows, they might uncover sunken treasure or befriend a mermaid! With innovative features never before seen in The Sims PC franchise and a world of new possibilities on land and in sea, your Sims will reap the benefits of their own island paradise.

KEY FEATURES

Set sail for adventure. Be it by paddleboat or speedboat, your Sims can now leave port to discover new lands and explore like never before, from inter-island travel to discovering their own uncharted island. Landlubbers need not apply!

Build and run a five-star resort. Create a family-friendly resort of waterslides and buffet tables, a romantic retreat dotted with minimalist cottages, or a singles resort featuring multiple pool bars where Sims can mingle and flirt. Choose and fine-tune your amenities, set your prices, and wait for the reviews—and Simoleons—to pour in. The higher your star rating, the more popular your resort will be!

Life is a beach. See what surprises await under the sea as your Sims build their skills in snorkeling/scuba diving. Your Sims may find themselves on the shore of a new island or discover sunken or buried treasure.

Boat sweet boat. Whether your Sims love the water or are just prone to wanderlust, a houseboat may be the perfect abode. Houseboats are fully customizable and can be moored at any open port, so if your Sims tire of the view, relocate to a new locale!

New ways to build. New stilted foundations give your Sims the best of both worlds—a home that’s partially on the water and partially on land. Build a resort, create travelling houseboats, and customize your very own island paradise for your Sims!

IF YOU WANT TO-Open A Resort, Get this game.-A Carribean world, Get this game.-Spend hours trying to discover islands, Get this game.-Get attacked by a kraken with a 1% chance, Get this game.-Drown a sim by cutting off an oxygen supply when scuba diving, Get this game.-Woohoo with a hot mermaid, Get this game.-Have possibly the best clothing DLC, Get this game.-Have a moveable house, Get this game.-Have a wide selection of pools, Get this game.-Have possibly the most beautiful landsccaping and town, Get this game.-Experience the creepiness of a Sims online dating site, Get this game.-Occupy giant islands that you mostlikely dont need, Get this game.

BUT IF YOU WANT TO-Have a functioning game, don't get this game.-Actually have space on your harddrive, don't get this game.-Have a game without lag, don't get this game.

I should've listen to the negative comments. I thought this pack would go perfectly, my sims can changed to a mermaid yes,the map is gorgeous yes, but everything worked really well until around 4 or 5 minutes my game crashed. no matter how many times I try again, the result is the same.

because of this ♥♥♥♥ I can't play the game perfectly like before. its always crashed and I didn't have the chance to do more and save the game. I'm really pissed. even if I play the base game its still crashed. because of this overly priced ♥♥♥♥, I lost my money for nothing and the game keep crashing like ♥♥♥♥. basically I spend few dollars (rupiah actually) for this ♥♥♥♥. thanks island paradise, you're ♥♥♥♥ing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Very laggy. I can run every other expansion without any problems, but this one destroys my FPS. Even without the frame drops it isn't very fun, scuba diving is only in certain locations that all look the same and the resort creation is not as fun as it seems.

Do not buy this EP. It is so beyond broken that words cannot describe-- then again, what can we expect from EA?

Moving on to the actual review (And not a red hot poker in the eye of EA), this includes a world hastily thrown together with routing issues galore, guaranteed to freeze your game consistently. My world even lost all grass textures. Literally, I cannot lie. It lost all of the grass and sand textures in the world. Lowering the graphics settings do not help because of the sheer number of stuck sims that will occur with this world.

Buying it for the purpose of playing it in other worlds? Oh sure. If you're okay with paying for a sub-par stuff pack that won't fit in any where else, and a bunch of douchey clothes for men and extremely skimpy clothes for women.

I cannot express my discontent with this EP, let alone EA. But to put it in perspective-- this is the only review I've ever seen as worth writing. Take this as a warning-- go buy another EP, please. Don't waste your money.

Listen to the reviews. Don't think that the game wil magically not affect your game performance. Beautiful and wonderful if it wouldn't crash every few minutes, The lag make the game unplayable. I so wanted this game to work.

Isla Paradiso, the new neighborhood, is incredibly laggy, which I think is because of houseboats and having to generate the town and all. Isla Paradiso is really beautiful and I even found this one beautiful spot: a pathway behind a waterfall with flowers. Too bad Isla's unplayable. Whenever I place a houseboat, just LAG! I have a neighborhood with about five (I didn't know about the laggy houseboats) and now it's lag central over there. Running a resort is fun, if you can ever figure out to place the resort tower! It takes me about ten minutes to actually get a resort tower placed. Seriously? The mermaids are AWESOME! The new clothing options are AWESOME! The new child girl's hairstyle is plain beautiful and the new clothes for all genders and ages look great as well. However, buying a game isn't just about hairstyles and life states. I enjoy this game and I can't wait to see Isla Paradiso all snowy, but nobody, NOBODY likes lag.